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Weather in Lancaster, VA · National Weather Service + NOAA

Weather in Lancaster

Lancaster has mild winters and warm summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 88°, a January night drops to 28°, and about 12 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.

Winter 50°/30°Spring 68°/46°Summer 86°/67°Fall 70°/50°
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Sunrise 7:02 am · sunset 6:47 pm

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A normal year

Where today sits in Lancaster’s year

Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.

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Winter
50° / 30°
3 days with an inch or more of snow
Spring
68° / 46°
Last frost around Apr 8
Summer
86° / 67°
44 days reach 90° in a normal year
Fall now
70° / 50°
First frost around Oct 30
28 daysuntil the usual first frost (Oct 30)
Best months to be outside
AprMayJunSepOct
Highs of 62–84° and lows of 40° or more
How much snow does Lancaster get?About 12 inches a winter.When is it wettest?August, with 4.9 inches.Is it warmer than it used to be?+1.4° vs. the 20th century.

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Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Lancaster itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Warsaw 2 Nw, VA (24 mi). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.

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